To celebrate our Improv and Comedy Training issue, let’s get you out to the Upright Citzens Brigades’ “ASSSCAT 3000” show in New York City; into the Gotham Comedy Club for “SNL” alum Jim Breuer and his standup; experiencing the Los Angeles Comedy Festival; cheering on your favorite comic in ...

“Shitty Jobs” at UCB; “From Mr. Chips to Scarface” at Museum of the Moving Image; the Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival; an all-female “Hamlet”; and Ethan Mordden’s new book “Anything Goes” are what we’re looking forward to this week.

In this all-comedy installment, we’re looking forward to “The Armando Show” and “The Crazy Uncle Joe Show” in L.A., and the funny people of “ASSSSCAT 3000” and Laughter in the Park and a taping of “The Chris Gethard Show” in NYC.

Cheyenne Jackson’s New Year’s Eve concert at the Kennedy Center, TNT’s “Christmas in Washington,” the “Les Misérables” movie soundtrack, IMPRO(vs)TANDUP at UCB, and the Moth StorySLAM are some of what we’re looking forward to this holiday season.